More than sixty new acts have been declared for the 2015 Reading and Leeds Festival. Charli XCX, Alt-J, Palma Violets and Twin Atlantic are among bands performing over the bank holiday weekend fest from 28th August to 30th August.

Playing the main stage on Friday (at Reading) and Saturday (at Leeds) are Alt-J, Drenge and Palma Violets while Modestep, Babymetal and FIDLAR will hit the stage on Saturday (at Reading) and Sunday (at Leeds).

The Gaslight Anthem would take the main stage on Sunday (at the Reading) and Friday (at the Leeds), and Against Me! As well as Feed The Rhino. Other performers declared in the weekend include Echosmith, Parquet Courts, Twin Atlantic, Kwabs, AWOLNATION, Nothing But Thieves, The Skints and Ghostpoet. Continue reading →

Reading and Leeds – the twin-sited music fest comes back to over August Bank Holiday, from 28th August, Friday to 30th August, Sunday. The organizers declared the name of the Libertines earlier this week as the final headliners, who will join joining Mumford & Sons and Metallica on the bill for this year.

The indie-rockers would bring the great ship Albion to the fests this summer, coating a Reading & Leeds legacy that dates back to the year 2002. Rising up through the billing of the festivals, troubadours Peter Doherty, Gary Powell, John Hassall and Carl Barât made their Main Stage debut in the year 2003 and came back in the year 2004.

The group blew the crowds away in the year 2010 when they reunited famously at the fests and now, for the very first time, they will take their place as the headliners of the Reading & Leeds. In a video message, Peter Doherty told that he has just woken up and I can’t stop thinking about playing at Reading & Leeds. Continue reading →

The popular American heavy metal band being formed in Los Angeles in California in 1981 presently have vocalist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, Robert Trujillo who is the bassist and Kirk Hammett as the guitarist.

When bassist Jason Newsted had left the band auditions started being held to find his permanent replacement. After conducting three months of auditions Robert Trujillo who had been a member of Suicidal Tendencies, the trash metal band as well as Black Label Society, the heavy metal band was finally chosen as their bassist.

During his appearance on Talk is Jericho, the subject of his association with Metallica came up. He nostalgically relates that his association with the band was rather a strange and amusing thing. He relates that a mutual friend of Metallica’s guitarist Kirk Hammett and he had asked him to take the both of them surfing. When they were on their surfing spree for a week they did not discuss much about music. Continue reading →